The Twitterverse has more to fear from a gay conservative than a fire-breathing ISIS recruiter if the social media giant’s treatment of a pair of prolific and provocative posters is to be squared. Related Image Expand / Contract Yiannopoulos, (l.), is banned from Twitter, but the social media platform refused to even take down terrorist messages from Choudary, (r.), according to London prosecutors. "An Islamic hate preacher convicted of inciting terrorism: fine," Yiannopoulos told FoxNews.com. But no one deserves to be subjected to targeted abuse online,” a Twitter spokesman told FoxNews.com in an email. Testimony also showed that YouTube refused a June 23 request to take down a Choudary video titled, "Duties of the Kilafah by Anjem Choudary" which was refused.

Source: Fox News August 18, 2016 14:15 UTC